


Want to download macOS Big Sur 11.6.1 as a complete installer application? Here would be the syntax for that: Downloading Full macOS Big Sur 11.6,1 Installer Application Note that if you’re running an M1 Mac and issuing this command, the available software installers reported will not include versions that do not support M1 hardware. Software Update found the following full installers: Listing Available macOS Installersįrom Terminal, issuing the following command will list out available macOS Installers for the Mac: The downloaded installer application of MacOS will appear in the /Applications directory of MacOS, just as if you had downloaded the installer from the Mac App Store or Software Update control panel. Softwareupdate -fetch-full-installer -full-installer-version 10.15 Remember to replace **.**.* with the version you want to download, for example to download the full macOS Catalina installer the syntax would be:

With this particular trick, you can download complete “Install MacOS” application packages directly from the Terminal application, and it works to get full installers of macOS Monterey, macOS Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra too.
